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2017 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
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| 2017 WCHA Men's ice hockey tournament | |
|---|---|
| Dates | March 3–18, 2017 |
| Teams | 8 |
| Finals site | MacInnes Student Ice Arena Houghton, Michigan |
| Champions | Michigan Tech (10th title) |
| Winning coach | Mel Pearson (1st title) |
| Most Outstanding Player | Shane Hanna (Michigan Tech) |
WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournaments | |
The 2017 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was played between March 3 and March 18, 2017, on campus locations. By winning the tournament, Michigan Tech was awarded the Broadmoor Trophy and received the WCHA's automatic bid to the 2017 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.
Format
The first two rounds of the postseason tournament features a best-of-three games format. The top eight conference teams participate in the tournament. Teams are seeded No. 1 through No. 8 according to their final conference standing, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with an identical number of points accumulated. The higher seeded teams each earn home ice and host one of the lower seeded teams.
The final was a single game held at the campus site of the highest remaining seed.
Conference standings
Note: GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against
| Conference record | Overall record | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GP | W | L | T | SOW | PTS | GF | GA | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA | ||
| Bemidji State† | 28 | 20 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 64 | 71 | 44 | 41 | 22 | 16 | 3 | 94 | 79 | |
| #19 Michigan Tech* | 28 | 15 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 54 | 80 | 59 | 45 | 23 | 15 | 7 | 131 | 100 | |
| Minnesota State | 28 | 15 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 51 | 89 | 68 | 39 | 22 | 13 | 4 | 119 | 95 | |
| Bowling Green | 28 | 14 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 44 | 79 | 65 | 41 | 21 | 18 | 2 | 120 | 102 | |
| Ferris State | 28 | 12 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 42 | 78 | 74 | 37 | 13 | 19 | 5 | 95 | 101 | |
| Alaska | 28 | 11 | 13 | 4 | 3 | 40 | 67 | 84 | 36 | 12 | 20 | 4 | 79 | 113 | |
| Lake Superior State | 28 | 8 | 13 | 7 | 4 | 35 | 78 | 87 | 36 | 11 | 18 | 7 | 103 | 119 | |
| Northern Michigan | 28 | 10 | 15 | 3 | 1 | 34 | 69 | 75 | 39 | 13 | 22 | 4 | 93 | 108 | |
| Alabama–Huntsville | 28 | 9 | 16 | 3 | 0 | 30 | 68 | 95 | 34 | 9 | 22 | 3 | 74 | 120 | |
| Alaska Anchorage | 28 | 6 | 16 | 6 | 2 | 26 | 52 | 80 | 34 | 7 | 21 | 6 | 59 | 102 | |
| Championship: March 18, 2017 † indicates conference regular season champion (MacNaughton Cup); * indicates conference tournament champion (Broadmoor Trophy) Rankings: USCHO.com Top 20 Poll; updated March 6, 2017 | |||||||||||||||
Bracket
Teams are reseeded after the first round
| Quarterfinals March 3–5 | Semifinals March 10–12 | Championship March 18 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Bemidji State | 3 | 2 | 3 | ||||||||||||||
| 8 | Northern Michigan | 0 | 4 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| 1 | Bemidji State | 3 | 1 | — | ||||||||||||||
| 4 | Bowling Green | 4* | 2 | — | ||||||||||||||
| 2 | Michigan Tech | 6 | 8 | — | ||||||||||||||
| 7 | Lake Superior State | 4 | 0 | — | ||||||||||||||
| 2 | Michigan Tech | 3** | ||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Bowling Green | 2 | ||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Minnesota State | 3 | 4 | — | ||||||||||||||
| 6 | Alaska | 0 | 1 | — | ||||||||||||||
| 2 | Michigan Tech | 5 | 0 | 4 | ||||||||||||||
| 3 | Minnesota State | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| 4 | Bowling Green | 6 | 5 | — | ||||||||||||||
| 5 | Ferris State | 1 | 3 | — | ||||||||||||||
Note: * denotes overtime periods
Results
Quarterfinals
(1) Bemidji State vs. (8) Northern Michigan
| March 3 | Bemidji State | 3–0 | Northern Michigan | Sanford Center | Recap | |||
| No Scoring | First period | No scoring | ||||||
| (G. Fitzgerald, Harms) Leo Fitzgerald (6) - GW - 01:22 (Marinaccio, G. Fitzgerald) Zach Whitecloud (3) - PP - 08:20 (Marinaccio, Baudry) Kyle Bauman (13) - 12:36 |
Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 30 saves / 30 shots ) Michael Bitzer | Goalie stats | Atte Tolvanen ( 24 saves / 27 shots ) | ||||||
| March 4 | Bemidji State | 2–4 | Northern Michigan | Sanford Center | Recap | |||
| No Scoring | First period | 17:25 - Shane Sooth (5) (Hanson, Shine) | ||||||
| (Harms) Nate Arentz (6) - SH - 01:32 | Second period | 01:04 - PP - Gerard Hanson (7) (Hannoun, Shine) 17:25 - GW PP - Dominik Shine (19) (Hanson, Sooth) | ||||||
| (Muck, G. Fitzgerald) Dan Billett (2) - GW - 13:37 | Third period | 18:27 - EN - Dominik Shine (20) (Hanson, Yaremko) | ||||||
| ( 17 saves / 20 shots ) Michael Bitzer | Goalie stats | Atte Tolvanen ( 46 saves / 48 shots ) | ||||||
| March 5 | Bemidji State | 3–1 | Northern Michigan | Sanford Center | Recap | |||
| (Arentz, Muck) Myles Fitzgerald (5) - 05:18 (L. Fitzgerald, G. Fitzgerald) Brendan Harms (8) - GW - 05:52 |
First period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Second period | 17:40 - PP - Brock Maschmeyer (5) (Shine, Payne) | ||||||
| (unassisted) Phillip Marinaccio (10) - EN - 19:42 | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 19 saves / 20 shots ) Michael Bitzer | Goalie stats | Atte Tolvanen ( 25 saves / 27 shots ) | ||||||
| Bemidji State wins series 2–1 | |
(2) Michigan Tech vs. (7) Lake Superior State
| March 3 | Michigan Tech | 6–4 | Lake Superior State | MacInnes Student Ice Arena | Recap | |||
| (L'Esperance, Watson) Alex Smith (7) - 03:34 (Hanna, Jackson) Reid Sturos (9) - 04:54 (L'Esperance, Watson) Alex Gillies (5) - 09:35 (Hanna, Lucchini) Mitch Reinke (6) - PP - 10:53 (Sturos, Neville) Jake Jackson (7) - GW - 11:33 |
First period | 07:28 - Mitch Hults (11) (Saccoman, Bindulis) 15:36 - PP - Luke Morgan (7) (Hults, Cuglietta) | ||||||
| (Neville, Sturos) Jake Jackson (8) - 01:19 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | 03:47 - Gage Torrel (14) (Hults, Bindulis) 05:12 - Gus Correale (6) (Hults) | ||||||
| ( 14 saves / 17 shots ) Angus Redmond / ( 0 saves / 1 shots ) Matt Wintjes | Goalie stats | Gordon Defiel ( 14 saves / 20 shots ) / Nick Kossoff ( 31 saves / 31 shots ) | ||||||
| March 4 | Michigan Tech | 8–0 | Lake Superior State | MacInnes Student Ice Arena | Recap | |||
| (Jackson, Watson) Reid Sturos (10) - GW - 03:30 (Roy, Auk) Joel L'Esperance (9) - PP - 18:38 |
First period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Sturos, Hanna) Mike Neville (6) - SH - 08:34 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Neville, Roy) Shane Hanna (7) - 01:42 (Roy, Auk) Gavin Gould (7) - PP - 05:49 (L'Esperance, Smith) Mark Auk (4) - PP - 11:56 (Gould) Chris Leibinger (8) - 12:08 (Heinonen, Lucchini) Joel L'Esperance (10) - 19:48 |
Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 16 saves / 16 shots ) Angus Redmond | Goalie stats | Gordon Defiel ( 30 saves / 38 shots ) | ||||||
| Michigan Tech wins series 2–0 | |
(3) Minnesota State vs. (6) Alaska
| March 3 | Minnesota State | 3–0 | Alaska | Verizon Wireless Center | Recap | |||
| (Foguth, Stepan) Sean Flanagan (5) - GW - 02:05 (Huntebrinker, Flanagan) Parker Tuomie (7) - PP - 12:47 |
First period | No scoring | ||||||
| (Nelson, Flanagan) Parker Tuomie (8) - 15:15 | Second period | No scoring | ||||||
| No scoring | Third period | No scoring | ||||||
| ( 23 saves / 23 shots ) Jason Pawloski | Goalie stats | Davis Jones ( 30 saves / 33 shots ) | ||||||